Transforming Experience: The Potential of Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality for Enhancing Personal and Clinical Change
During our life we undergo many personal changes: we change our house, our school, our work and even our friends and partners. However, our daily experience shows clearly that in some situations subjects are unable to change even if they want to. The recent advances in psychology and neuroscience ar...
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| author | Giuseppe Riva Giuseppe Riva ROSA M. BAÑOS ROSA M. BAÑOS ROSA M. BAÑOS Cristina Botella Cristina Botella Cristina Botella Fabrizia Mantovani Andrea Gaggioli Andrea Gaggioli |
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| description | During our life we undergo many personal changes: we change our house, our school, our work and even our friends and partners. However, our daily experience shows clearly that in some situations subjects are unable to change even if they want to. The recent advances in psychology and neuroscience are now providing a better view of personal change, the change affecting our assumptive world: a) the focus of personal change is reducing the distance between self and reality (conflict); b) this reduction is achieved through (1) an intense focus on the particular experience creating the conflict or (2) an internal or external reorganization of this experience; c) personal change requires a progression through a series of different stages; d) clinical psychology is often used to facilitate personal change when subjects are unable to move forward. Starting from these premises, the aim of this paper is to review the potential of virtuality for enhancing the processes of personal and clinical change. First, the paper will focus on the two leading virtual technologies – Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) – exploring their current uses in behavioral health and the outcomes of the 28 available systematic reviews and meta-analyses. Then the paper discusses the added value provided by VR and AR in transforming our external experience, by focusing on the high level of self-reflectiveness and personal efficacy induced by their emotional engagement and sense of presence. Finally, it outlines the potential future use of virtuality for transforming our inner experience by structuring, altering and/or replacing our bodily self-consciousness. The final outcome may be a new generation of transformative experiences that provide knowledge that is epistemically inaccessible to the individual until he or she has that experience, while at the same time transforming the individual’s worldview. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ba3ce580d308460e887aedeb033acac22022-12-22T03:34:07ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychiatry1664-06402016-09-01710.3389/fpsyt.2016.00164222151Transforming Experience: The Potential of Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality for Enhancing Personal and Clinical ChangeGiuseppe Riva0Giuseppe Riva1ROSA M. BAÑOS2ROSA M. BAÑOS3ROSA M. BAÑOS4Cristina Botella5Cristina Botella6Cristina Botella7Fabrizia Mantovani8Andrea Gaggioli9Andrea Gaggioli10Istituto Auxologico ItalianoUniversità Cattolica del Sacro CuoreUniversidad de ValenciaInstituto Salud Carlos IIIRed de Excelencia PROMOSAMInstituto Salud Carlos IIIRed de Excelencia PROMOSAMUniversitat Jaume IUniversità degli Studi Milano BicoccaIstituto Auxologico ItalianoUniversità Cattolica del Sacro CuoreDuring our life we undergo many personal changes: we change our house, our school, our work and even our friends and partners. However, our daily experience shows clearly that in some situations subjects are unable to change even if they want to. The recent advances in psychology and neuroscience are now providing a better view of personal change, the change affecting our assumptive world: a) the focus of personal change is reducing the distance between self and reality (conflict); b) this reduction is achieved through (1) an intense focus on the particular experience creating the conflict or (2) an internal or external reorganization of this experience; c) personal change requires a progression through a series of different stages; d) clinical psychology is often used to facilitate personal change when subjects are unable to move forward. Starting from these premises, the aim of this paper is to review the potential of virtuality for enhancing the processes of personal and clinical change. First, the paper will focus on the two leading virtual technologies – Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) – exploring their current uses in behavioral health and the outcomes of the 28 available systematic reviews and meta-analyses. Then the paper discusses the added value provided by VR and AR in transforming our external experience, by focusing on the high level of self-reflectiveness and personal efficacy induced by their emotional engagement and sense of presence. Finally, it outlines the potential future use of virtuality for transforming our inner experience by structuring, altering and/or replacing our bodily self-consciousness. The final outcome may be a new generation of transformative experiences that provide knowledge that is epistemically inaccessible to the individual until he or she has that experience, while at the same time transforming the individual’s worldview.http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyt.2016.00164/fullAcute PainAnxiety DisordersChronic PainDepressionEating Disorderspsychosis |
| spellingShingle | Giuseppe Riva Giuseppe Riva ROSA M. BAÑOS ROSA M. BAÑOS ROSA M. BAÑOS Cristina Botella Cristina Botella Cristina Botella Fabrizia Mantovani Andrea Gaggioli Andrea Gaggioli Transforming Experience: The Potential of Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality for Enhancing Personal and Clinical Change Frontiers in Psychiatry Acute Pain Anxiety Disorders Chronic Pain Depression Eating Disorders psychosis |
| title | Transforming Experience: The Potential of Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality for Enhancing Personal and Clinical Change |
| title_full | Transforming Experience: The Potential of Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality for Enhancing Personal and Clinical Change |
| title_fullStr | Transforming Experience: The Potential of Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality for Enhancing Personal and Clinical Change |
| title_full_unstemmed | Transforming Experience: The Potential of Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality for Enhancing Personal and Clinical Change |
| title_short | Transforming Experience: The Potential of Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality for Enhancing Personal and Clinical Change |
| title_sort | transforming experience the potential of augmented reality and virtual reality for enhancing personal and clinical change |
| topic | Acute Pain Anxiety Disorders Chronic Pain Depression Eating Disorders psychosis |
| url | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyt.2016.00164/full |
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